Word: touched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to be the richest man in the world. Last week, under pressure to become part of India, Hyderabad appealed to the U .N. Security Council for help in preserving its independence. In Hyderabad, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar examined Hyderabad's cold war with India, which may touch off a new wave of Hindu-Moslem warfare. Lubar cabled...
...Filth. Through the super-secret hocus-pocus common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...
...Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during the war, he campaigned to give U.S. Japanese a fair break...
...final show, the audiences saw Up in Central Park, with several members of its Broadway cast. The big favorites, however, are such sentimental standbys as The Great Waltz, Show Boat and Babes in Toyland. The directors usually bypass Broadway hits like One Touch of Venus or Bloomer Girl, considering them too gamy for the family trade...
...Velvet Touch (RKO Radio) opens with a furious quarrel. A Broadway actress (Rosalind Russell), famous as a drawing-room-comedienne, wants to move on to roles like Hedda Gabler and to move out on her producer and ex-lover (Leon Ames). He tells her contemptuously that he made her what she is, that she couldn't play Hedda for peanuts, and that if she leaves him he will publicize her Past. At this point Rosalind crowns the rotter with a statuette...